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Stephen Bach

Brown University
Eliot Horowitz Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department
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Jason Fries

Stanford University
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Data Science and of Medicine
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Jared Dunnmon

Co-Founder & Chief Scientist, Stealth Startup
Prev. Dir. of AI at DIU
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Fred Sala

Chief Scientist
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Snorkel AI
Assistant Professor @ University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Chris Ré

Co-Founder
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Snorkel AI
Professor @ Stanford University
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Ludwig Schmidt

Stanford University · LAION
Stanford researcher and LAION collaborator
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Karthik Narasimhan

Princeton University
Professor of Computer Science
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Yu Su

Ohio State University
Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering
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Lewis Tunstall

Hugging Face
Machine Learning Engineer
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DEEM’22: Data Management for End-to-End Machine Learning
The DEEM’22 workshop (Data Management for End-to-End Machine Learning) is held on Sunday June 12th, in conjunction with SIGMOD/PODS 2022. DEEM brings together researchers and practitioners at the intersection of applied machine learning, data management and systems research, with the goal to discuss the arisingdata management issues in ML application scenarios. The workshop solicits regular research papers (10 pages) describing preliminary and ongoing research results, including industrial experience reports of end-to-end ML deployments, related to DEEM topics. In addition, DEEM 2022 establishes a new paper category for reports on applications and tools (4 pages) as a forum for sharing interesting...
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DEEM’22: Data Management for End-to-End Machine Learning

The DEEM’22 workshop (Data Management for End-to-End Machine Learning) is held on Sunday June 12th, in conjunction with SIGMOD/PODS 2022. DEEM brings together researchers and practitioners at the intersection of applied machine learning, data management and systems research, with the goal to discuss the arisingdata management issues in ML application scenarios. The workshop solicits regular research papers (10 pages) describing…

Oct 20, 2023

M. Boehm, et al.

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MOTOR: A Time-to-Event Foundation Model for Structured Medical Records
We present a self-supervised, time-to-event (TTE) foundation model called MOTOR (Many Outcome Time Oriented Representations) which is pretrained on timestamped sequences of events in electronic health records (EHR) and health insurance claims. TTE models are used for estimating the probability distribution of the time until a specific event occurs, which is an important task in medical settings. TTE models provide many advantages over classification using fixed time horizons, including naturally handling censored observations, but are challenging to train with limited labeled data. MOTOR addresses this challenge by pretraining on up to 55M patient records (9B clinical events). We evaluate MOTOR’s...
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MOTOR: A Time-to-Event Foundation Model for Structured Medical Records

We present a self-supervised, time-to-event (TTE) foundation model called MOTOR (Many Outcome Time Oriented Representations) which is pretrained on timestamped sequences of events in electronic health records (EHR) and health insurance claims. TTE models are used for estimating the probability distribution of the time until a specific event occurs, which is an important task in medical settings. TTE models provide…

Oct 20, 2023

E. Steinberg, et al.

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Low-Resource Languages Jailbreak GPT-4
AI safety training and red-teaming of large language models (LLMs) are measures to mitigate the generation of unsafe content. Our work exposes the inherent cross-lingual vulnerability of these safety mechanisms, resulting from the linguistic inequality of safety training data, by successfully circumventing GPT-4’s safeguard through translating unsafe English inputs into low-resource languages. On the AdvBenchmark, GPT-4 engages with the unsafe translated inputs and provides actionable items that can get the users towards their harmful goals 79% of the time, which is on par with or even surpassing state-of-the-art jailbreaking attacks. Other high-/mid-resource languages have significantly lower attack success rate, which...
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Low-Resource Languages Jailbreak GPT-4

AI safety training and red-teaming of large language models (LLMs) are measures to mitigate the generation of unsafe content. Our work exposes the inherent cross-lingual vulnerability of these safety mechanisms, resulting from the linguistic inequality of safety training data, by successfully circumventing GPT-4’s safeguard through translating unsafe English inputs into low-resource languages. On the AdvBenchmark, GPT-4 engages with the unsafe…

Oct 20, 2023

ZX. Yong, et al.

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Does CLIP Bind Concepts? Probing Compositionality in Large Image Models
Large-scale neural network models combining text and images have made incredible progress in recent years. However, it remains an open question to what extent such models encode compositional representations of the concepts over which they operate, such as correctly identifying red cube by reasoning over the constituents red and cube. In this work, we focus on the ability of a large pretrained vision and language model (CLIP) to encode compositional concepts and to bind variables in a structure-sensitive way (e.g., differentiating cube behind sphere from sphere behind cube). In order to inspect the performance of CLIP, we compare several architectures...
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Does CLIP Bind Concepts? Probing Compositionality in Large Image Models

Large-scale neural network models combining text and images have made incredible progress in recent years. However, it remains an open question to what extent such models encode compositional representations of the concepts over which they operate, such as correctly identifying red cube by reasoning over the constituents red and cube. In this work, we focus on the ability of a…

Oct 20, 2023

M. Lewis, et al.

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Physion: Evaluating Physical Prediction from Vision in Humans and Machines
While current vision algorithms excel at many challenging tasks, it is unclear how well they understand the physical dynamics of real-world environments. Here we introduce Physion, a dataset and benchmark for rigorously evaluating the ability to predict how physical scenarios will evolve over time. Our dataset features realistic simulations of a wide range of physical phenomena, including rigid and soft-body collisions, stable multi-object configurations, rolling, sliding, and projectile motion, thus providing a more comprehensive challenge than previous benchmarks. We used Physion to benchmark a suite of models varying in their architecture, learning objective, input-output structure, and training data. In parallel,...
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Physion: Evaluating Physical Prediction from Vision in Humans and Machines

While current vision algorithms excel at many challenging tasks, it is unclear how well they understand the physical dynamics of real-world environments. Here we introduce Physion, a dataset and benchmark for rigorously evaluating the ability to predict how physical scenarios will evolve over time. Our dataset features realistic simulations of a wide range of physical phenomena, including rigid and soft-body…

Oct 20, 2023

D. Bear, et al.

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Bloomberg’s Gideon Mann on the power of domain specialist LLMs
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Bloomberg’s Gideon Mann on the power of domain specialist LLMs

Gideon Mann, head of ML Product and Research at Bloomberg LP, chatted with Snorkel CEO Alex Ratner about building BloombergGPT.

Oct 17, 2023
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Which is better, retrieval augmentation (RAG) or fine-tuning? Both.
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Which is better, retrieval augmentation (RAG) or fine-tuning? Both.

Professionals in the data science space often debate whether RAG or fine-tuning yields the better result. The answer is “both.”

Sep 20, 2023
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Tasks Algorithmically Given Labels Established via Transferred Symbols (TAGLETS)
We conducted research to reduce the amount of labeled data required to train machine learning systems. The pinnacle of this effort is the development of TAGLETS, a machine learning system that seamlessly integrates widely known collections of labeled data with a diverse array of machine learning algorithms, known as weak labelers. The system's evolution has been significantly influenced by comprehensive theoretical explorations into effectively aggregating these weak labelers within the system. The research's scope expands to the application of large pre-trained models in low-resource settings. The result of these efforts is Alfred, a second-generation system tailored for programmatic weak supervision...
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Tasks Algorithmically Given Labels Established via Transferred Symbols (TAGLETS)

We conducted research to reduce the amount of labeled data required to train machine learning systems. The pinnacle of this effort is the development of TAGLETS, a machine learning system that seamlessly integrates widely known collections of labeled data with a diverse array of machine learning algorithms, known as weak labelers. The system’s evolution has been significantly influenced by comprehensive…

Sep 20, 2023

M. Littman, et al.

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Former U.S. Chief Data Scientist on past and future of data science
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Former U.S. Chief Data Scientist on past and future of data science

Past U.S. Chief Data Scientist DJ Patil talked with Snorkel AI CEO Alex Ratner on topics including the origin of the title “data scientist.”

Sep 12, 2023
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